Full Resolution Aart reads up on the 'Plankton' -- the consistent (yet ever-changing!) plan for the teams to set up and observe the occultation. These same telescopes have been used several times before: first in South Africa in 2017, then to Argentina, back to Boulder for check-out and testing, and now to Colombia. Each one weighs about 100 lbs, plus another 200 lbs for the four large crates in which they travel.
In Colombia we had nine total sites:
- Three 16-inch portable SkyWatcher dobsonians (SwRI -- our group)
- Four 14-inch portable Celestrons
- One more portable dobsonian
- Two fixed sites near Medellin -- 13-inch and 25-inch.
